Word: mende
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...Nigeria's rulers and their unwillingness to share the wealth isn't easy, though. The Delta is now home to several antigovernment, anti-oil-industry militia groups fighting for a cut of the revenues. The biggest and most organized is the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (mend), which counts several hundred militants in its ranks. As Pullo, who titles himself General Officer Commanding, mend Camp Five, says: "God has given us everything in the Delta: water, fish, oil. And yet we are suffering. That is our cross." mend recently issued a press release vowing a new campaign...
...tape of the new President, but was too appalled by it to share it in public. Falwell came out early for Bush in 2000. Not long after, John McCain called Falwell, along with Rev. Pat Robertson, an "agent of intolerance." McCain more recently traveled to Lynchburg to mend fences...
...about the burdens of the past. Spahic, director of the documentary about Chang, expects all this cinematic interest to help "open a dialogue" on Nanjing's legacy. There are even signs that reconciliation might not be out of the question. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken pains to mend fences with China in his first months in office, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to visit Japan in April. As Kingston says, both sides are coming to the realization that "this relationship is far too important to hold hostage to history...
Once a thrifty way to mend worn clothing, patchwork is suddenly in the style spotlight. Designers like Derek Lam and Marc Jacobs showed pieced-together looks on their spring runways. And one of Louis Vuitton's hottest handbags was a mix-and-match style that evoked bits of purses past...
Compelling though this logic is, there’s one small place where the analogy falters: Lincoln was one of the most divisive and opinionated candidates ever elected. He had a rock-solid stance against slavery, and when he called on mending the “house divided,” he did not propose to do so with flowering rhetoric and vague promises of cooperation, but rather by ending the spread of slavery. Consensus builder? Half of the country seceded when the man was elected. This was a leader who knew that the only way to truly mend...